The Himalayas Mountain Range stretches across South and Central Asia, forming the highest and most extensive mountain system ...

A snowless Himalayan winter is raising alarms across India. Experts explain what a ‘snow drought’ means and why it matters ...

Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.

For centuries, high mountain passes have acted as lifelines across the Himalayas, linking remote regions with the rest of the ...

Violence marked most of the world’s trouble spots last week: bloodletting in Algeria, upheaval in Argentina, a shadow war in South Viet Nam, a coup d’état in Syria. Almost unnoticed was an event of ...

For the first time in the history of the world, billions of people have stopped what they were doing and are hiding indoors, fearful that an invisible enemy might get them. And as tragic as all this ...

This winter, the western Himalayas look unfamiliar. Mountain slopes that are usually wrapped in thick layers of snow during December and January are largely bare, exposing rock and soil across ...

Scientists have found that, despite a vast difference in precipitation between the north and south sides of the Himalaya Mountains, rates of erosion are indistinguishable across these mountains. Santa ...

How and when do mountains grow? It is tempting to think of mountain formation as something that takes place only extremely gradually, on timescales of tens of millions of years. One tectonic plate ...

The Indian Himalaya Mountains are in the spotlight of tourism safety after seven tourists mountain climbing went missing last week. The missing visitors include two Americans, four Britons, and an ...

Residents in the northern Indian state of Punjab say they're seeing the Himalayas for the first time in decades while on coronavirus lockdown. Since India was put on lockdown in March to help prevent ...